A monumentally stupid idea meets its just reward

[Gerarddm]

And if it can't even fly in Texas, fer crissake, THAT is how dumb an idea it was.


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[Paul Pless]

one wonders when the banking and securities investigations will begin

[Keith Wilson]

Definitely has the smell of an enterprise set up purely to extract money from investors, the standard Trump pattern.

[Joe (SoCal)]

Peter Thiel has all the Lex Luther / bond villan qualities, and he's been behind the scenes pulling strings for a long time.

[Durnik]

fta: "...for consumers who find Wall Street too liberal."

how bloody ign'rant does a body have to be to find Wall Street - nearly the essence of conservative - to be 'too liberal'?

fleecing the marks continues.

[Keith Wilson]

how bloody ign'rant does a body have to be to find Wall Street - nearly the essence of conservative - to be 'too liberal'?

You think?

But the difference is that capitalism as such is in some respects amoral, entirely unconcerned with the kind of issues these folks get so excited about. Megabucks LLC is quite happy to sell you gay pride flags, crucifixes to hang on the wall, 'God Is Pro-Life' bumper stickers, porn movies, bibles, organic tofu, or ammunition. They want capitalism that supports their particular prejudices.

[David G]

OK... now THAT is funny. Pathetic, but still funny.

[L.W. Baxter]

it's not that mainstream banks are liberal, it's that they make concessions to social progress for commercial purposes.

though i suppose, making concessions to social progress for money might be "liberal" by the definition of the reactionary right.

by that definition, dallas cowboys owner jerry jones is a liberal, waffling about his photographed presence, blocking school integration at little rock in 1957.

"i was just curious..."

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[JimD]

I know it's been asked before, but where does a country that has accomplished so much find so many stupid people?

[birlinn]

Peter Thiel has all the Lex Luther / bond villan qualities, and he's been behind the scenes pulling strings for a long time.

Thiel? Is that a typo?

[C. Ross]

I know it's been asked before, but where does a country that has accomplished so much find so many stupid people?

Promiscuous breeding and free-range parenting. We produce champions and runts. And there’s plenty of running room for all of them.

[Paul Pless]

Promiscuous breeding and free-range parenting. We produce champions and runts. And there’s plenty of running room for all of them.

this documentary explains it well

[JimD]

Promiscuous breeding and free-range parenting. We produce champions and runts. And there’s plenty of running room for all of them.

I still think you could shut down the worst of the puppy mills and be no worse off for it.

[C. Ross]

this documentary explains it well

OMG. How did I miss that movie?

It explains Gaetz, Greene, Boebert, Gohmert, et al. The next Congress won’t do anything and will probably break a bunch of things (like defaulting on Treasury securities over a debt ceiling raise). But it will be amusing to watch Kevin McCarthy unravel as he tries to get a majority vote on anything, and to watch his clenched-teeth snails as he depends on McConnell to actually lead anything.

[Gerarddm]

^ McConnell is truly evil, but McCarthy is simply an ass-kissing empty suit.

[skuthorp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-jsqZQ4OOY

[hawkeye54]

Definitely has the smell of an enterprise set up purely to extract money from investors, the standard Trump pattern.

I used to work maintaining banking equipment, saw a few banks close down in the mid 1980's - the Fed ( Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ) seemed to have no sense of humor, nor tolerance of impropriety when it came to money / assets of a member bank, as I recall.

[Keith Wilson]

. . . the Fed ( Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ) seemed to have no sense of humor, nor tolerance of impropriety when it came to money / assets of a member bank, as I recall.

And a damn good thing. Considering they were established in 1933, when banks failing had caused no end of misery, I'm not even a little surprised.